* [http://www.kclibrary.org/press-release/kansas-city-public-library-employee-receives-distinguished-professional-honor Kansas City Public Library Employee Receives Distinguished Professional Honor]: The Kansas City Public Library is pleased to announce that Readers’ Services Manager Kaite Stover will receive the 2012 Allie Beth Martin Award, one of the top honors for public library service given out by the Public Library Association (PLA). In PLA's official announcement, Stover is recognized for "the expertise she brings to reading initiatives within her community and into the library world at large." Her crucial role in organizing and executing KCPL-sponsored reading initiatives – including four Big Read programs – as well as her many expert presentations and workshops on readers' advisory services at conferences nationwide helped distinguish her nomination from a competitive field.

* [http://www.kclibrary.org/press-release/kansas-city-public-library-employee-receives-distinguished-professional-honor Kansas City Public Library Employee Receives Distinguished Professional Honor]: The Kansas City Public Library is pleased to announce that Readers’ Services Manager Kaite Stover will receive the 2012 Allie Beth Martin Award, one of the top honors for public library service given out by the Public Library Association (PLA). In PLA's official announcement, Stover is recognized for "the expertise she brings to reading initiatives within her community and into the library world at large." Her crucial role in organizing and executing KCPL-sponsored reading initiatives – including four Big Read programs – as well as her many expert presentations and workshops on readers' advisory services at conferences nationwide helped distinguish her nomination from a competitive field.

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

[[Category:Administration and Management]]

Latest revision as of 10:24, 21 March 2012

Established in 1990, the Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services is a citation and $3,000 monetary award presented to a library or library system for developing an imaginative and unique resource to meet patrons' reference needs. The resource can be a bibliography, a guide to the literature of a specific subject, a directory, a database, or any other project that has helped the library meet adult or children's reference needs. Tools, guides or databases that have been developed for reader's advisory or adult service questions and needs are also eligible for the award.

The Allie Beth Martin Award provides recognition and a $3,000 honorarium to a librarian who, in a public library setting, has demonstrated: (1) extraordinary range and depth of knowledge about books or other library materials; and (2) distinguished ability to share that knowledge. The award was established by the Public Library Association Board of Directors in 1978. After its 1993 fall meeting, the PLA Executive Committee notified PLA Award Chairs that the word “librarian” is defined as a professional possessing a Master of Library Science degree. Therefore, persons not having earned an MLS are ineligible to receive the Allie Beth Martin Award.

PLA award winners represent excellence in public libraries: CHICAGO - The Public Library Association (PLA) has announced 13 2012 award winners honoring the best in public library service, innovation and outreach. The Allie Beth Martin Award, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, recognizes a public librarian for demonstrating a range and depth of knowledge about books and other library materials and the distinguished ability to share that knowledge. This year’s award of $3,000 will be presented to Kaite Mediatore Stover, readers' services manager, Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library, because of the expertise she brings to reading initiatives within her community and into the library world at large.

Kansas City Public Library Employee Receives Distinguished Professional Honor: The Kansas City Public Library is pleased to announce that Readers’ Services Manager Kaite Stover will receive the 2012 Allie Beth Martin Award, one of the top honors for public library service given out by the Public Library Association (PLA). In PLA's official announcement, Stover is recognized for "the expertise she brings to reading initiatives within her community and into the library world at large." Her crucial role in organizing and executing KCPL-sponsored reading initiatives – including four Big Read programs – as well as her many expert presentations and workshops on readers' advisory services at conferences nationwide helped distinguish her nomination from a competitive field.